notes awd DZocumeHts8.A. Pease's Accoaut of the exas KevoAlutioEdited byKATHERINE HART AND ELIZABETH KEMPN THE MASS OF MATERIAL RELATING TO GOVERNOR ELISHAMarshall Pease and his family, given by the heirs of R. NilesGraham to the Austin-Travis County Collection of the AustinPublic Library, there are comparatively few of Pease's own lettersfrom the earliest period of his residence in Texas. A noteworthyexception is the one which follows.E. M. Pease came to Texas in January, 1835, on the schoonerSan Felipe. He was accompanied by his father, Lorrain ThompsonPease, who came to look the country over, with the idea of settlingin Texas. The father returned to Connecticut but the son stayedon and began studying law in the Mina office of Don Carlos Bar-rett. He participated in the battle of Gonzales and, after with-drawing from active service because of ill health, held variousposts in the early government of the Republic of Texas. Whenthe letter was written, he was probably clerk of the judicial com-mittee of the House of Representatives.In the meantime, Pease's younger brother, Lorrain ThompsonPease, Jr., had come to Texas, had fought in the battle of Goliad,and had been taken captive. He escaped, rejoined his brother, butdied August 31, 1836, of wounds received in the battle. He wascalled Thompson by the family, and it is to his death that Peaserefers in the first paragraph of the letter. The account of the TexasRevolution apparently was written by Pease in response to a re-quest of his father for first hand information. The "proposedundertaking" of the elder Pease was a short book on Texas to bepublished with one being written by John M. Niles on SouthAmerica and Mexico. Niles, United States Senator from Con-necticut and later Postmaster General of the United States, was